Atom on Linux

Atom is a cross-platform text and source code editor developed by GitHub. Atom is Open Source, written in C++, Node.js, CoffeeScript, Javascript, CSS and HTML. Atom is still under active development does not come with a pre-compiled package for Linux and is not officially supported by any Linux distributions, As of now Atom only support OSX platform.

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Requirements.

Git

Build-Essential

Node.js

If you already have the required dependencies on your system skip this step, if you don’t have the dependencies already installed on your system then follow the steps. To install Node.js using PPA on Ubuntu follow this post

Installing dependencies for Debian based Linux distributions.

sudo apt-get install build-essential git nodejs

If you use Fedora or RPM based Linux distribution follow below. If you are using CentOS 6 than you can add EPEL repository. You might need to source compile Node.js on certain Linux distributions if Node.js is not available in the repository, you can get the Node.js source here.